After Break Up With Girlfriend Jobless Chinese Man Joins Fight Against ISIS

Pan Yang, 25-year-old Chinese man has become the first citizen from China to join the fight against ISIS.

Pan yang, Image via BBC China

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He has traveled to Syria, Turkey and Lebanon to join Kurdish militia Popular Protection Units in their fight against ISIS. According to Pan, he wanted to do something meaningful after he could not find regular work in China and his girlfriend had also broken up with him.

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“People should do interesting things. For me, what I can do is pick up a gun and go to war.” Pan told BBC China.